Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Styles and Periods Facet
3. Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)
4. [styles, periods, and cultures by region]
5. European
6. European regions
7. Italian (culture or style)
8. Sardinian (culture or style)

Anotations

Scope note:

Distinctive culture of ancient Sardinia, dating 1900-400 BCE. It is characterized by, among other things, thousands of truncated conic structures made of huge blocks of basalt taken from extinct volcanoes; it predates the Phoenicians, who arrived here ca. 800 BCE.